Papers are invited for an AAG session on the interwoven politics and political ecologies of Indigenous rights and protected area-based conservation.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the Indigenous Specialty Group has sponsored and organized such sessions at the AAG annual meetings.

These sessions provide a continuing venue at the AAG for discussion of conservation, difference, and social justice and for analyses of the diverse political ecologies created by the establishment of protected areas by Indigenous peoples, states, and NGOs in Indigenous peoples' territories.

Participants in this year's session are invited to join previous participants in contributing theoretical and case study chapters to an edited book.

Both theoretical and case study contributions are welcome.

I am particularly interested in papers on the following topics:

I. New Paradigm Protected Areas. Establishment, operation, and effectiveness of inclusive, participatory, new paradigm protected areas. These may include diverse types of protected areas in which Indigenous peoples' land use and participation in management is recognized.

II. Critiques of Old Paradigm Protected Areas. Analyses of coercively imposed exclusionary "wilderness" or Yellowstone-model protected areas and "fortress conservation" from the standpoints of violations of human/indigenous rights; displacement; loss of access to and/or management of natural resources, cultural resources, and cultural sites; accompanying changes in land/water use and management; and consequent ecological change.

III. "Hand-backs," "Hand overs," and other Reconciliation and Restitution. Case studies of redress, compensation, or restitution for past injustices against Indigenous peoples caused by the creation or management of protected areas.

IV. False Representations of "Progressive" Protected Areas. Analyses of protected areas which have inappropriately represented as participatory and community-based by states, intergovernmental agencies, or NGOs .

V. Rights-Based Conservation. Analyses of protected area governance and management in cases where this is explicitly based on recognition of constitutional, human, and/or Indigenous Rights.

Note on Protected Areas: Under the term "protected areas" I include all forms of "conservation territories" managed or co-managed by states, communities, or private individuals and organizations. Papers are welcome not only on inhabited national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife reserves and other forms of conservation areas which have been designated or recognized by states but also on all lands and waters which Indigenous peoples inhabit, use, and manage in ways which have conservation significance regardless of whether they have been formally declared protected areas by Indigenous peoples and other local communities or whether they have been recognized as protected areas by states or by international organizations.

Papers are invited for an AAG session on the interwoven politics and political ecologies of Indigenous rights and protected area-based conservation.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the Indigenous Specialty Group has sponsored and organized such sessions at the AAG annual meetings.

These sessions provide a continuing venue at the AAG for discussion of conservation, difference, and social justice and for analyses of the diverse political ecologies created by the establishment of protected areas by Indigenous peoples, states, and NGOs in Indigenous peoples' territories.

Participants in this year's session are invited to join previous participants in contributing theoretical and case study chapters to an edited book.

Both theoretical and case study contributions are welcome.

I am particularly interested in papers on the following topics:

I. New Paradigm Protected Areas. Establishment, operation, and effectiveness of inclusive, participatory, new paradigm protected areas. These may include diverse types of protected areas in which Indigenous peoples' land use and participation in management is recognized.

II. Critiques of Old Paradigm Protected Areas. Analyses of coercively imposed exclusionary "wilderness" or Yellowstone-model protected areas and "fortress conservation" from the standpoints of violations of human/indigenous rights; displacement; loss of access to and/or management of natural resources, cultural resources, and cultural sites; accompanying changes in land/water use and management; and consequent ecological change.

III. "Hand-backs," "Hand overs," and other Reconciliation and Restitution. Case studies of redress, compensation, or restitution for past injustices against Indigenous peoples caused by the creation or management of protected areas.

IV. False Representations of "Progressive" Protected Areas. Analyses of protected areas which have inappropriately represented as participatory and community-based by states, intergovernmental agencies, or NGOs .

V. Rights-Based Conservation. Analyses of protected area governance and management in cases where this is explicitly based on recognition of constitutional, human, and/or Indigenous Rights.

Note on Protected Areas: Under the term "protected areas" I include all forms of "conservation territories" managed or co-managed by states, communities, or private individuals and organizations. Papers are welcome not only on inhabited national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife reserves and other forms of conservation areas which have been designated or recognized by states but also on all lands and waters which Indigenous peoples inhabit, use, and manage in ways which have conservation significance regardless of whether they have been formally declared protected areas by Indigenous peoples and other local communities or whether they have been recognized as protected areas by states or by international organizations.

Papers are invited for an AAG session on the interwoven politics and political ecologies of Indigenous rights and protected area-based conservation.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the Indigenous Specialty Group has sponsored and organized such sessions at the AAG annual meetings.

These sessions provide a continuing venue at the AAG for discussion of conservation, difference, and social justice and for analyses of the diverse political ecologies created by the establishment of protected areas by Indigenous peoples, states, and NGOs in Indigenous peoples' territories.

Participants in this year's session are invited to join previous participants in contributing theoretical and case study chapters to an edited book.

Both theoretical and case study contributions are welcome.

I am particularly interested in papers on the following topics:

I. New Paradigm Protected Areas. Establishment, operation, and effectiveness of inclusive, participatory, new paradigm protected areas. These may include diverse types of protected areas in which Indigenous peoples' land use and participation in management is recognized.

II. Critiques of Old Paradigm Protected Areas. Analyses of coercively imposed exclusionary "wilderness" or Yellowstone-model protected areas and "fortress conservation" from the standpoints of violations of human/indigenous rights; displacement; loss of access to and/or management of natural resources, cultural resources, and cultural sites; accompanying changes in land/water use and management; and consequent ecological change.

III. "Hand-backs," "Hand overs," and other Reconciliation and Restitution. Case studies of redress, compensation, or restitution for past injustices against Indigenous peoples caused by the creation or management of protected areas.

IV. False Representations of "Progressive" Protected Areas. Analyses of protected areas which have inappropriately represented as participatory and community-based by states, intergovernmental agencies, or NGOs .

V. Rights-Based Conservation. Analyses of protected area governance and management in cases where this is explicitly based on recognition of constitutional, human, and/or Indigenous Rights.

Note on Protected Areas: Under the term "protected areas" I include all forms of "conservation territories" managed or co-managed by states, communities, or private individuals and organizations. Papers are welcome not only on inhabited national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife reserves and other forms of conservation areas which have been designated or recognized by states but also on all lands and waters which Indigenous peoples inhabit, use, and manage in ways which have conservation significance regardless of whether they have been formally declared protected areas by Indigenous peoples and other local communities or whether they have been recognized as protected areas by states or by international organizations.

Papers are invited for an AAG session on the interwoven politics and political ecologies of Indigenous rights and protected area-based conservation.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the Indigenous Specialty Group has sponsored and organized such sessions at the AAG annual meetings.

These sessions provide a continuing venue at the AAG for discussion of conservation, difference, and social justice and for analyses of the diverse political ecologies created by the establishment of protected areas by Indigenous peoples, states, and NGOs in Indigenous peoples' territories.

Participants in this year's session are invited to join previous participants in contributing theoretical and case study chapters to an edited book.

Both theoretical and case study contributions are welcome.

I am particularly interested in papers on the following topics:

I. New Paradigm Protected Areas. Establishment, operation, and effectiveness of inclusive, participatory, new paradigm protected areas. These may include diverse types of protected areas in which Indigenous peoples' land use and participation in management is recognized.

II. Critiques of Old Paradigm Protected Areas. Analyses of coercively imposed exclusionary "wilderness" or Yellowstone-model protected areas and "fortress conservation" from the standpoints of violations of human/indigenous rights; displacement; loss of access to and/or management of natural resources, cultural resources, and cultural sites; accompanying changes in land/water use and management; and consequent ecological change.

III. "Hand-backs," "Hand overs," and other Reconciliation and Restitution. Case studies of redress, compensation, or restitution for past injustices against Indigenous peoples caused by the creation or management of protected areas.

IV. False Representations of "Progressive" Protected Areas. Analyses of protected areas which have inappropriately represented as participatory and community-based by states, intergovernmental agencies, or NGOs .

V. Rights-Based Conservation. Analyses of protected area governance and management in cases where this is explicitly based on recognition of constitutional, human, and/or Indigenous Rights.

Note on Protected Areas: Under the term "protected areas" I include all forms of "conservation territories" managed or co-managed by states, communities, or private individuals and organizations. Papers are welcome not only on inhabited national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife reserves and other forms of conservation areas which have been designated or recognized by states but also on all lands and waters which Indigenous peoples inhabit, use, and manage in ways which have conservation significance regardless of whether they have been formally declared protected areas by Indigenous peoples and other local communities or whether they have been recognized as protected areas by states or by international organizations.

Papers are invited for an AAG session on the interwoven politics and political ecologies of Indigenous rights and protected area-based conservation.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the Indigenous Specialty Group has sponsored and organized such sessions at the AAG annual meetings.

These sessions provide a continuing venue at the AAG for discussion of conservation, difference, and social justice and for analyses of the diverse political ecologies created by the establishment of protected areas by Indigenous peoples, states, and NGOs in Indigenous peoples' territories.

Participants in this year's session are invited to join previous participants in contributing theoretical and case study chapters to an edited book.

Both theoretical and case study contributions are welcome.

I am particularly interested in papers on the following topics:

I. New Paradigm Protected Areas. Establishment, operation, and effectiveness of inclusive, participatory, new paradigm protected areas. These may include diverse types of protected areas in which Indigenous peoples' land use and participation in management is recognized.

II. Critiques of Old Paradigm Protected Areas. Analyses of coercively imposed exclusionary "wilderness" or Yellowstone-model protected areas and "fortress conservation" from the standpoints of violations of human/indigenous rights; displacement; loss of access to and/or management of natural resources, cultural resources, and cultural sites; accompanying changes in land/water use and management; and consequent ecological change.

III. "Hand-backs," "Hand overs," and other Reconciliation and Restitution. Case studies of redress, compensation, or restitution for past injustices against Indigenous peoples caused by the creation or management of protected areas.

IV. False Representations of "Progressive" Protected Areas. Analyses of protected areas which have inappropriately represented as participatory and community-based by states, intergovernmental agencies, or NGOs .

V. Rights-Based Conservation. Analyses of protected area governance and management in cases where this is explicitly based on recognition of constitutional, human, and/or Indigenous Rights.

Note on Protected Areas: Under the term "protected areas" I include all forms of "conservation territories" managed or co-managed by states, communities, or private individuals and organizations. Papers are welcome not only on inhabited national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife reserves and other forms of conservation areas which have been designated or recognized by states but also on all lands and waters which Indigenous peoples inhabit, use, and manage in ways which have conservation significance regardless of whether they have been formally declared protected areas by Indigenous peoples and other local communities or whether they have been recognized as protected areas by states or by international organizations.

Papers are invited for an AAG session on the interwoven politics and political ecologies of Indigenous rights and protected area-based conservation.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the Indigenous Specialty Group has sponsored and organized such sessions at the AAG annual meetings.

These sessions provide a continuing venue at the AAG for discussion of conservation, difference, and social justice and for analyses of the diverse political ecologies created by the establishment of protected areas by Indigenous peoples, states, and NGOs in Indigenous peoples' territories.

Participants in this year's session are invited to join previous participants in contributing theoretical and case study chapters to an edited book.

Both theoretical and case study contributions are welcome.

I am particularly interested in papers on the following topics:

I. New Paradigm Protected Areas. Establishment, operation, and effectiveness of inclusive, participatory, new paradigm protected areas. These may include diverse types of protected areas in which Indigenous peoples' land use and participation in management is recognized.

II. Critiques of Old Paradigm Protected Areas. Analyses of coercively imposed exclusionary "wilderness" or Yellowstone-model protected areas and "fortress conservation" from the standpoints of violations of human/indigenous rights; displacement; loss of access to and/or management of natural resources, cultural resources, and cultural sites; accompanying changes in land/water use and management; and consequent ecological change.

III. "Hand-backs," "Hand overs," and other Reconciliation and Restitution. Case studies of redress, compensation, or restitution for past injustices against Indigenous peoples caused by the creation or management of protected areas.

IV. False Representations of "Progressive" Protected Areas. Analyses of protected areas which have inappropriately represented as participatory and community-based by states, intergovernmental agencies, or NGOs .

V. Rights-Based Conservation. Analyses of protected area governance and management in cases where this is explicitly based on recognition of constitutional, human, and/or Indigenous Rights.

Note on Protected Areas: Under the term "protected areas" I include all forms of "conservation territories" managed or co-managed by states, communities, or private individuals and organizations. Papers are welcome not only on inhabited national parks, wilderness areas, wildlife reserves and other forms of conservation areas which have been designated or recognized by states but also on all lands and waters which Indigenous peoples inhabit, use, and manage in ways which have conservation significance regardless of whether they have been formally declared protected areas by Indigenous peoples and other local communities or whether they have been recognized as protected areas by states or by international organizations.

The Geomatics Industry Association of Canada (GIAC) is hosting an Information Outreach Workshop to showcase the vital role that location-based or "geospatial" information - such as digital maps and satellite images - and technologies can play in enhancing public and private sector decision-making and in the management of policy, social, environmental and economic development issues. This workshop is made possible with financial support from GeoConnections, a national partnership program led by Natural Resource Canada. The workshop is facilitated in Vancouver with the assistance and support of the Integrated Cadastral Information Society (ICIS).

This 2-day workshop introduces participants to the concepts of Indigenous Knowledge (IK), First Nations Environmental Philosophy, and methods to include Indigenous Knowledge in the environmental assessment (EA) process. Case study examples will be discussed.

This 2-day workshop introduces participants to the concepts of Indigenous Knowledge (IK), First Nations Environmental Philosophy, and methods to include Indigenous Knowledge in the environmental assessment (EA) process. Case study examples will be discussed.

The conference gravitates around three levels of reflections: movement, participation and risk.They are the subjects, we have just considered above and that play a crucial role in thecontemporary world processes. We propose a non–exhaustive list of issues and approaches about each one, in order to start a debate:1. Movement Cartography - This issue deals with the necessity to think about the way ofrepresenting movement using topological metrics. Far from considering the most obvious andcommon (denotative according semiotics) meaning - i. e. moving things and people, movement isthe conceptual category to think about in order to identify innovative analytical instruments to grasp the deep nature of globalization. In fact, by recovering its deeper sense (connotative, according to semiotics again), movement is today perceived in its highest meaning: generating source, energy able to assume a multiplicity of configurations, which are not possible to turn to a static form but, rather, are only definable in their own dynamism. Therefore, phenomena in current times have not to be represented in their final state but they should be investigated in their changing in progress, that is also their own goal. Then, in current times of “generalized mobility”, which constitutes the crucial aspect of our society, it is urgent wondering: what is the most appropriate cartographic system to represent movement? In urban context, is it possible to overcome the range between Euclidian representation and urban mass, determined by co-presence and interaction of a large number of social operators? And, even, is it possible to think about a way of a cartographic representation, assuming the influence of Earth curvature on movement at the global scale without vanishing it by using projections?2. Participatory Mapping – This issue concerns the research of instruments to activate thedialogue and the participation between different actors, involved in territorial planning: we point out governance as the field of experimentation of participatory cartographic systems, since it constitutes the moment where a multiplicity of actors take part in discussion in order to find shared interests and positions, to be considered in decision making. We intend analyzing the role of participatory mapping in pointing out identity values of landscape, as a stake in negotiation process, but also the development and the diffusion of Geographic Information Technologies thanks to the interactive processes promoted by the web - such as Public and Participatory GIS, and the last generation of «WikiGIS». Both support the processes of collective thinking and decision making and they also are understandable by non-expert people, that can be involved. Then, the question is: what kind of information grant the participation and what kind of multimedia systems are able to activate the sharing of interests and, then, promote consensus in decision making process? And also, is participatory mapping able to build a dialogue between actors belonging to different cultural scenarios?3. Cartography of risk - This context concerns decision support systems (DSS) in order tocommunicate the risk and face emergency in crisis situations. At this regards, we are going to face the subject of including the map, inside these situations, playing the role of symbolic operator able to act in such a decision making, characterized by urgency and criticality. Starting from Luhmann’s proposal to distinguish between risk and danger and assuming the different role that decision has inside each one, it is possible to face the issue of cartographic communication in determining social perception and impress upon the time dimension of the event, i. e. preventing and managing the emergency. In order to prevent damages and, then, to face dangers and future situations of criticality, we need to investigate: the connection between decision and risk - which considerably depends on techniques of process control, the resources to be managed and the identification of errors. Concerning emergency, we need to assume the huge complexity of causal processes, which happen at the same time, thinking about not only the information to put on the map but also about the contexts created by different actors, and, even, about the prevention of the event evolution. In fact, the different aspects of emergency must be considered: the conditions which generated it, the actors involved, its impact and consequences, the possible actions able to manage it, negotiations, decision making, the revision process able to consider its dynamics. All these issues raise a multiplicity of questions: how can the map communicate prevention and, then, how can it impress upon the social dimension of risk? Which role can we give it inside DSS? How can we introduce the time factor and forecast variables created by emergency?

Organization structure:Length: 2 daysPlace: Bergamo (Italy)Languages: English and ItalianConference web site : www.unibg.it/geografiaConference Secretary: Federica Burini: fburini@unibg.it; Alessandra Ghisalberti: aleghisa@unibg.itDeadlines:The scientific committee will grant the participation to a limited number of participant only, after acareful selection, according to the following schedule:February 15th – deadline for abstracts and a short CV for asking to participate in the conference;February 25th – publication on the conference web site of the final list of participants in the three parallel workshops.Auditors can follow the conference works by sending their subscription by mail to the conference secretary within March the 30th.Aftermaths:The scientific results of the conference, after a careful selection and a thematic re-assemblage, will be published on the on-line journals Espace-Temps and CODATA Journal.Furthermore, these papers will be collected in the first volume of the collection “Autrement dit: lediscours cartographique” published by L’Harmattan Paris.

The conference gravitates around three levels of reflections: movement, participation and risk.They are the subjects, we have just considered above and that play a crucial role in thecontemporary world processes. We propose a non–exhaustive list of issues and approaches about each one, in order to start a debate:1. Movement Cartography - This issue deals with the necessity to think about the way ofrepresenting movement using topological metrics. Far from considering the most obvious andcommon (denotative according semiotics) meaning - i. e. moving things and people, movement isthe conceptual category to think about in order to identify innovative analytical instruments to grasp the deep nature of globalization. In fact, by recovering its deeper sense (connotative, according to semiotics again), movement is today perceived in its highest meaning: generating source, energy able to assume a multiplicity of configurations, which are not possible to turn to a static form but, rather, are only definable in their own dynamism. Therefore, phenomena in current times have not to be represented in their final state but they should be investigated in their changing in progress, that is also their own goal. Then, in current times of “generalized mobility”, which constitutes the crucial aspect of our society, it is urgent wondering: what is the most appropriate cartographic system to represent movement? In urban context, is it possible to overcome the range between Euclidian representation and urban mass, determined by co-presence and interaction of a large number of social operators? And, even, is it possible to think about a way of a cartographic representation, assuming the influence of Earth curvature on movement at the global scale without vanishing it by using projections?2. Participatory Mapping – This issue concerns the research of instruments to activate thedialogue and the participation between different actors, involved in territorial planning: we point out governance as the field of experimentation of participatory cartographic systems, since it constitutes the moment where a multiplicity of actors take part in discussion in order to find shared interests and positions, to be considered in decision making. We intend analyzing the role of participatory mapping in pointing out identity values of landscape, as a stake in negotiation process, but also the development and the diffusion of Geographic Information Technologies thanks to the interactive processes promoted by the web - such as Public and Participatory GIS, and the last generation of «WikiGIS». Both support the processes of collective thinking and decision making and they also are understandable by non-expert people, that can be involved. Then, the question is: what kind of information grant the participation and what kind of multimedia systems are able to activate the sharing of interests and, then, promote consensus in decision making process? And also, is participatory mapping able to build a dialogue between actors belonging to different cultural scenarios?3. Cartography of risk - This context concerns decision support systems (DSS) in order tocommunicate the risk and face emergency in crisis situations. At this regards, we are going to face the subject of including the map, inside these situations, playing the role of symbolic operator able to act in such a decision making, characterized by urgency and criticality. Starting from Luhmann’s proposal to distinguish between risk and danger and assuming the different role that decision has inside each one, it is possible to face the issue of cartographic communication in determining social perception and impress upon the time dimension of the event, i. e. preventing and managing the emergency. In order to prevent damages and, then, to face dangers and future situations of criticality, we need to investigate: the connection between decision and risk - which considerably depends on techniques of process control, the resources to be managed and the identification of errors. Concerning emergency, we need to assume the huge complexity of causal processes, which happen at the same time, thinking about not only the information to put on the map but also about the contexts created by different actors, and, even, about the prevention of the event evolution. In fact, the different aspects of emergency must be considered: the conditions which generated it, the actors involved, its impact and consequences, the possible actions able to manage it, negotiations, decision making, the revision process able to consider its dynamics. All these issues raise a multiplicity of questions: how can the map communicate prevention and, then, how can it impress upon the social dimension of risk? Which role can we give it inside DSS? How can we introduce the time factor and forecast variables created by emergency?

Organization structure:Length: 2 daysPlace: Bergamo (Italy)Languages: English and ItalianConference web site : www.unibg.it/geografiaConference Secretary: Federica Burini: fburini@unibg.it; Alessandra Ghisalberti: aleghisa@unibg.itDeadlines:The scientific committee will grant the participation to a limited number of participant only, after acareful selection, according to the following schedule:February 15th – deadline for abstracts and a short CV for asking to participate in the conference;February 25th – publication on the conference web site of the final list of participants in the three parallel workshops.Auditors can follow the conference works by sending their subscription by mail to the conference secretary within March the 30th.Aftermaths:The scientific results of the conference, after a careful selection and a thematic re-assemblage, will be published on the on-line journals Espace-Temps and CODATA Journal.Furthermore, these papers will be collected in the first volume of the collection “Autrement dit: lediscours cartographique” published by L’Harmattan Paris.

Cy Smith is the GIS Coordinator for the State of Oregon. He also serves as Past-President of NSGIC (National States Geographic Information Council), Chair of COGO (The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations), and he just concluded a three year term on the UIRISA Board of Directors.

Cy’s Keynote address will focus on the roll of COGO, the new Administration in WashingtonD.C., and potential developments in Federal geospatial policy that could impact local agencies.

Tour of City of Bellevue GIS Operations

This tour will be limited to 25 people –register soon to take advantage of this opportunity!

Cy Smith is the GIS Coordinator for the State of Oregon. He also serves as Past-President of NSGIC (National States Geographic Information Council), Chair of COGO (The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations), and he just concluded a three year term on the UIRISA Board of Directors.

Cy’s Keynote address will focus on the roll of COGO, the new Administration in WashingtonD.C., and potential developments in Federal geospatial policy that could impact local agencies.

Tour of City of Bellevue GIS Operations

This tour will be limited to 25 people –register soon to take advantage of this opportunity!

Cy Smith is the GIS Coordinator for the State of Oregon. He also serves as Past-President of NSGIC (National States Geographic Information Council), Chair of COGO (The Coalition of Geospatial Organizations), and he just concluded a three year term on the UIRISA Board of Directors.

Cy’s Keynote address will focus on the roll of COGO, the new Administration in WashingtonD.C., and potential developments in Federal geospatial policy that could impact local agencies.

Tour of City of Bellevue GIS Operations

This tour will be limited to 25 people –register soon to take advantage of this opportunity!

The 2009 BC Land Summit will be an interdisciplinary conference organized by six professional organizations, all of whom share ties to land use in British Columbia and who will combine their 2009 annual conferences into this exciting joint venture.

The 2009 BC Land Summit will build on the success of the 2004 BC Land Summit in Vancouver, and will provide opportunities to learn, share ideas, collaborate and network with others working in diverse land-related fields.

2009 BC LAND SUMMIT Program THEME

A Better Future: Adapting to Change

The broad over-arching conference theme for the 2009 BC Land Summit is A Better Future: Adapting to Change. This theme recognizes the many different processes of change – from the global to the local – affecting land, land-use, and communities’ relationship with the land. This theme also adopts a positive, future-oriented perspective that recognizes the valuable and important need for informed adaptation as we move forward in the face of change. Within the umbrella of the over-arching conference theme, the program will be organized into four sub-themes, outlined below. We seek proposals for presentations, papers, workshops, media, and other unique forms of engagement – including mobile workshops, demonstration site tours, and more – that explore the many dimensions of change which are affecting land, land-use and communities across British Columbia and beyond.

Program SUB-THEMES

Changing Place & Space – Communities in Transition:

This sub-theme will focus on human settlements and the built environment, from urban centres to small towns and rural communities, and the many diverse and sometimes contradictory forces of change affecting them. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme include: housing, urban design, downtown revitalization, development economics, municipal taxation, green design, small town & rural community issues, issues of locality and identity, community engagement, resource communities in the contemporary context, issues of resort development, and more.

Changing Environments – Natural & Cultural Diversity:

The sub-theme will focus on the complex diversities of people, communities and the natural environment, and the dynamic issues facing them. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme include: First Nations community issues, environmental & nature conservation, connecting with nature, water issues, food security, food quality and agriculture, agricultural land regulation and global/local impacts on agricultural lands, demographic change and cultural diversity, and more.

A World of Change – Growth & Globalization:

This sub-theme will focus on the major global, dynamic issues and challenges that are affecting and impacting the land, environment and all communities and regions. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme will include: climate change, economic growth issues and globalization, community durability, energy and resources, governance, and more.

Change in Motion – Movement, Transportation & Travel:

This sub-theme will focus primarily on transportation, movement and travel at every level and scale and their vital, interactive relationship with land and land-use. Topic areas that will be included under this sub-theme include: public transit, transportation infrastructure, cycling, alternate modes of transportation, goods movement, travel and tourism, pedestrianization, jobs and housing balance, green transportation and more

The 2009 BC Land Summit will be an interdisciplinary conference organized by six professional organizations, all of whom share ties to land use in British Columbia and who will combine their 2009 annual conferences into this exciting joint venture.

The 2009 BC Land Summit will build on the success of the 2004 BC Land Summit in Vancouver, and will provide opportunities to learn, share ideas, collaborate and network with others working in diverse land-related fields.

2009 BC LAND SUMMIT Program THEME

A Better Future: Adapting to Change

The broad over-arching conference theme for the 2009 BC Land Summit is A Better Future: Adapting to Change. This theme recognizes the many different processes of change – from the global to the local – affecting land, land-use, and communities’ relationship with the land. This theme also adopts a positive, future-oriented perspective that recognizes the valuable and important need for informed adaptation as we move forward in the face of change. Within the umbrella of the over-arching conference theme, the program will be organized into four sub-themes, outlined below. We seek proposals for presentations, papers, workshops, media, and other unique forms of engagement – including mobile workshops, demonstration site tours, and more – that explore the many dimensions of change which are affecting land, land-use and communities across British Columbia and beyond.

Program SUB-THEMES

Changing Place & Space – Communities in Transition:

This sub-theme will focus on human settlements and the built environment, from urban centres to small towns and rural communities, and the many diverse and sometimes contradictory forces of change affecting them. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme include: housing, urban design, downtown revitalization, development economics, municipal taxation, green design, small town & rural community issues, issues of locality and identity, community engagement, resource communities in the contemporary context, issues of resort development, and more.

Changing Environments – Natural & Cultural Diversity:

The sub-theme will focus on the complex diversities of people, communities and the natural environment, and the dynamic issues facing them. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme include: First Nations community issues, environmental & nature conservation, connecting with nature, water issues, food security, food quality and agriculture, agricultural land regulation and global/local impacts on agricultural lands, demographic change and cultural diversity, and more.

A World of Change – Growth & Globalization:

This sub-theme will focus on the major global, dynamic issues and challenges that are affecting and impacting the land, environment and all communities and regions. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme will include: climate change, economic growth issues and globalization, community durability, energy and resources, governance, and more.

Change in Motion – Movement, Transportation & Travel:

This sub-theme will focus primarily on transportation, movement and travel at every level and scale and their vital, interactive relationship with land and land-use. Topic areas that will be included under this sub-theme include: public transit, transportation infrastructure, cycling, alternate modes of transportation, goods movement, travel and tourism, pedestrianization, jobs and housing balance, green transportation and more

The 2009 BC Land Summit will be an interdisciplinary conference organized by six professional organizations, all of whom share ties to land use in British Columbia and who will combine their 2009 annual conferences into this exciting joint venture.

The 2009 BC Land Summit will build on the success of the 2004 BC Land Summit in Vancouver, and will provide opportunities to learn, share ideas, collaborate and network with others working in diverse land-related fields.

2009 BC LAND SUMMIT Program THEME

A Better Future: Adapting to Change

The broad over-arching conference theme for the 2009 BC Land Summit is A Better Future: Adapting to Change. This theme recognizes the many different processes of change – from the global to the local – affecting land, land-use, and communities’ relationship with the land. This theme also adopts a positive, future-oriented perspective that recognizes the valuable and important need for informed adaptation as we move forward in the face of change. Within the umbrella of the over-arching conference theme, the program will be organized into four sub-themes, outlined below. We seek proposals for presentations, papers, workshops, media, and other unique forms of engagement – including mobile workshops, demonstration site tours, and more – that explore the many dimensions of change which are affecting land, land-use and communities across British Columbia and beyond.

Program SUB-THEMES

Changing Place & Space – Communities in Transition:

This sub-theme will focus on human settlements and the built environment, from urban centres to small towns and rural communities, and the many diverse and sometimes contradictory forces of change affecting them. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme include: housing, urban design, downtown revitalization, development economics, municipal taxation, green design, small town & rural community issues, issues of locality and identity, community engagement, resource communities in the contemporary context, issues of resort development, and more.

Changing Environments – Natural & Cultural Diversity:

The sub-theme will focus on the complex diversities of people, communities and the natural environment, and the dynamic issues facing them. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme include: First Nations community issues, environmental & nature conservation, connecting with nature, water issues, food security, food quality and agriculture, agricultural land regulation and global/local impacts on agricultural lands, demographic change and cultural diversity, and more.

A World of Change – Growth & Globalization:

This sub-theme will focus on the major global, dynamic issues and challenges that are affecting and impacting the land, environment and all communities and regions. Topic areas that will be covered under this sub-theme will include: climate change, economic growth issues and globalization, community durability, energy and resources, governance, and more.

Change in Motion – Movement, Transportation & Travel:

This sub-theme will focus primarily on transportation, movement and travel at every level and scale and their vital, interactive relationship with land and land-use. Topic areas that will be included under this sub-theme include: public transit, transportation infrastructure, cycling, alternate modes of transportation, goods movement, travel and tourism, pedestrianization, jobs and housing balance, green transportation and more

CIER's workshop "Comprehensive Community Planning: Getting Started" on Tuesday May 26 and Wednesday May 27th is fast approaching! Send in your registration form for this interactive 2-day session of presentations, activities, individual and group exercises on how to help your community begin its planning process by Friday May 15th to guarantee your participation.

CIER's workshop "Comprehensive Community Planning: Getting Started" on Tuesday May 26 and Wednesday May 27th is fast approaching! Send in your registration form for this interactive 2-day session of presentations, activities, individual and group exercises on how to help your community begin its planning process by Friday May 15th to guarantee your participation.

The Office of the Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs invite you to participate in an All Nations Energy Summit. All Nations addressing current energy issues including Enbridge Northern Gateway Project and the need for planning a sustainable energy future.

Keynote speakers and panelists representing all aspects of theNorthern Gateway pipeline, tanker traffic, and Alberta tar sands willprovide information to the public throughout the day to:

INFORM our Nations and northern communities of the potential environmental, legal, cultural and socio-economic, and cumulative impacts of proposed energy projects; look at sustainable energy options for the north and,

INSPIRE our Nations on asserting our rights, title and interests that would best represent our traditions, history and culture, ensuring that we are not accepting economics over impacts.

WE HAVE TOO MUCH TO LOSE.

“Empower First Nations right to free, prior and informed consent on developments that would impact our Rights, Title and interest on unceded lands.”

I am writing to invite you to the launch of my newest book: First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition. Please pass this email on to any of your friends and contact who might be interested in attending (all events are free and open to the public).I am excited to be a contributor on this most unique and very well produced book (hardcover, 184 pages, and with 100 finely printed colour and archival photographs). It was put together by the Westfalian Museum for Natural History in Muenster, Germany, as part of an exhibit they did on First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest. I travelled to Germany, along with some of my Nuu-chah-nulth friends (Joe, Mary and Tsimka Martin), for the opening of the exhibit.

This book has not, until now, been available in Canada. The first section, by Prof. Alfred Hendricks, is about traditional west coast culture and the effects that European contact had on it. The second section is a series of interviews that I did (along with accompanying portraits) of residential school survivors. Nothing like this has ever been brought to the public in Canada, and that is why I have worked so hard to import and distribute this book in Canada. This is something that all Canadians should have access to - and that is why I did that project in the first place.

I hope that you will be able to attend one of my launch events. This will include a multimedia show (film and photos) about Nuu-chah-nulth traditional culture as well as about some of the issues that affect them today, as well as a talk about the book and readings. Members of the Martin family will be present at many of the events.

The tour kicks off in Vancouver:Wed. June 10th, 8pm, Alma van Dusen Room, Vancouver Public Library and the following night is in Victoria:Thurs. June 11th, Nellie McClung branch of the Greater Victorial Public Library and is then followed June 12th through 17th with events in: Nanaimo, Duncan, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. Take a look at the full event schedule <http://jwindh.wordpress.com/books/pacific-first-nations/launch-tour-dates/> .

I am writing to invite you to the launch of my newest book: First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition. Please pass this email on to any of your friends and contact who might be interested in attending (all events are free and open to the public).I am excited to be a contributor on this most unique and very well produced book (hardcover, 184 pages, and with 100 finely printed colour and archival photographs). It was put together by the Westfalian Museum for Natural History in Muenster, Germany, as part of an exhibit they did on First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest. I travelled to Germany, along with some of my Nuu-chah-nulth friends (Joe, Mary and Tsimka Martin), for the opening of the exhibit.

This book has not, until now, been available in Canada. The first section, by Prof. Alfred Hendricks, is about traditional west coast culture and the effects that European contact had on it. The second section is a series of interviews that I did (along with accompanying portraits) of residential school survivors. Nothing like this has ever been brought to the public in Canada, and that is why I have worked so hard to import and distribute this book in Canada. This is something that all Canadians should have access to - and that is why I did that project in the first place.

I hope that you will be able to attend one of my launch events. This will include a multimedia show (film and photos) about Nuu-chah-nulth traditional culture as well as about some of the issues that affect them today, as well as a talk about the book and readings. Members of the Martin family will be present at many of the events.

The tour kicks off in Vancouver:Wed. June 10th, 8pm, Alma van Dusen Room, Vancouver Public Library and the following night is in Victoria:Thurs. June 11th, Nellie McClung branch of the Greater Victorial Public Library and is then followed June 12th through 17th with events in: Nanaimo, Duncan, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. Take a look at the full event schedule <http://jwindh.wordpress.com/books/pacific-first-nations/launch-tour-dates/> .

I am writing to invite you to the launch of my newest book: First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition. Please pass this email on to any of your friends and contact who might be interested in attending (all events are free and open to the public).I am excited to be a contributor on this most unique and very well produced book (hardcover, 184 pages, and with 100 finely printed colour and archival photographs). It was put together by the Westfalian Museum for Natural History in Muenster, Germany, as part of an exhibit they did on First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest. I travelled to Germany, along with some of my Nuu-chah-nulth friends (Joe, Mary and Tsimka Martin), for the opening of the exhibit.

This book has not, until now, been available in Canada. The first section, by Prof. Alfred Hendricks, is about traditional west coast culture and the effects that European contact had on it. The second section is a series of interviews that I did (along with accompanying portraits) of residential school survivors. Nothing like this has ever been brought to the public in Canada, and that is why I have worked so hard to import and distribute this book in Canada. This is something that all Canadians should have access to - and that is why I did that project in the first place.

I hope that you will be able to attend one of my launch events. This will include a multimedia show (film and photos) about Nuu-chah-nulth traditional culture as well as about some of the issues that affect them today, as well as a talk about the book and readings. Members of the Martin family will be present at many of the events.

The tour kicks off in Vancouver:Wed. June 10th, 8pm, Alma van Dusen Room, Vancouver Public Library and the following night is in Victoria:Thurs. June 11th, Nellie McClung branch of the Greater Victorial Public Library and is then followed June 12th through 17th with events in: Nanaimo, Duncan, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. Take a look at the full event schedule <http://jwindh.wordpress.com/books/pacific-first-nations/launch-tour-dates/> .

I am writing to invite you to the launch of my newest book: First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition. Please pass this email on to any of your friends and contact who might be interested in attending (all events are free and open to the public).I am excited to be a contributor on this most unique and very well produced book (hardcover, 184 pages, and with 100 finely printed colour and archival photographs). It was put together by the Westfalian Museum for Natural History in Muenster, Germany, as part of an exhibit they did on First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest. I travelled to Germany, along with some of my Nuu-chah-nulth friends (Joe, Mary and Tsimka Martin), for the opening of the exhibit.

This book has not, until now, been available in Canada. The first section, by Prof. Alfred Hendricks, is about traditional west coast culture and the effects that European contact had on it. The second section is a series of interviews that I did (along with accompanying portraits) of residential school survivors. Nothing like this has ever been brought to the public in Canada, and that is why I have worked so hard to import and distribute this book in Canada. This is something that all Canadians should have access to - and that is why I did that project in the first place.

I hope that you will be able to attend one of my launch events. This will include a multimedia show (film and photos) about Nuu-chah-nulth traditional culture as well as about some of the issues that affect them today, as well as a talk about the book and readings. Members of the Martin family will be present at many of the events.

The tour kicks off in Vancouver:Wed. June 10th, 8pm, Alma van Dusen Room, Vancouver Public Library and the following night is in Victoria:Thurs. June 11th, Nellie McClung branch of the Greater Victorial Public Library and is then followed June 12th through 17th with events in: Nanaimo, Duncan, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. Take a look at the full event schedule <http://jwindh.wordpress.com/books/pacific-first-nations/launch-tour-dates/> .

IMN 09 - Oneida Nation, Green Bay, Wisconsin

I am writing to invite you to the launch of my newest book: First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition. Please pass this email on to any of your friends and contact who might be interested in attending (all events are free and open to the public).I am excited to be a contributor on this most unique and very well produced book (hardcover, 184 pages, and with 100 finely printed colour and archival photographs). It was put together by the Westfalian Museum for Natural History in Muenster, Germany, as part of an exhibit they did on First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest. I travelled to Germany, along with some of my Nuu-chah-nulth friends (Joe, Mary and Tsimka Martin), for the opening of the exhibit.

This book has not, until now, been available in Canada. The first section, by Prof. Alfred Hendricks, is about traditional west coast culture and the effects that European contact had on it. The second section is a series of interviews that I did (along with accompanying portraits) of residential school survivors. Nothing like this has ever been brought to the public in Canada, and that is why I have worked so hard to import and distribute this book in Canada. This is something that all Canadians should have access to - and that is why I did that project in the first place.

I hope that you will be able to attend one of my launch events. This will include a multimedia show (film and photos) about Nuu-chah-nulth traditional culture as well as about some of the issues that affect them today, as well as a talk about the book and readings. Members of the Martin family will be present at many of the events.

The tour kicks off in Vancouver:Wed. June 10th, 8pm, Alma van Dusen Room, Vancouver Public Library and the following night is in Victoria:Thurs. June 11th, Nellie McClung branch of the Greater Victorial Public Library and is then followed June 12th through 17th with events in: Nanaimo, Duncan, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. Take a look at the full event schedule <http://jwindh.wordpress.com/books/pacific-first-nations/launch-tour-dates/> .

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), in collaboration with GeoConnections, Canada, and the U.S. Federal Geographic Data Committee, will host the “First Nations and Native Tribal Government Geographic Information System Workshop” on Sunday, June 14, 2009 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Niagara Falls, NY. This workshop is a joint activity of U.S. and Canada to promote cross-border collaboration on spatial data infrastructure.

The workshop will demonstrate the benefits that spatial data infrastructures bring to land and resource management, enhance understanding of the application of geospatial technologies to matters of importance to Aboriginal communities, and provide a networking forum to encourage future cross-border collaborations between Aboriginal and Tribal communities and also with provincial, territorial, state and federal governments.

The workshop is being held in conjunction with the 2009 NCAI Mid Year Meeting, June 14-17, 2009.

I am writing to invite you to the launch of my newest book: First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition. Please pass this email on to any of your friends and contact who might be interested in attending (all events are free and open to the public).I am excited to be a contributor on this most unique and very well produced book (hardcover, 184 pages, and with 100 finely printed colour and archival photographs). It was put together by the Westfalian Museum for Natural History in Muenster, Germany, as part of an exhibit they did on First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest. I travelled to Germany, along with some of my Nuu-chah-nulth friends (Joe, Mary and Tsimka Martin), for the opening of the exhibit.

This book has not, until now, been available in Canada. The first section, by Prof. Alfred Hendricks, is about traditional west coast culture and the effects that European contact had on it. The second section is a series of interviews that I did (along with accompanying portraits) of residential school survivors. Nothing like this has ever been brought to the public in Canada, and that is why I have worked so hard to import and distribute this book in Canada. This is something that all Canadians should have access to - and that is why I did that project in the first place.

I hope that you will be able to attend one of my launch events. This will include a multimedia show (film and photos) about Nuu-chah-nulth traditional culture as well as about some of the issues that affect them today, as well as a talk about the book and readings. Members of the Martin family will be present at many of the events.

The tour kicks off in Vancouver:Wed. June 10th, 8pm, Alma van Dusen Room, Vancouver Public Library and the following night is in Victoria:Thurs. June 11th, Nellie McClung branch of the Greater Victorial Public Library and is then followed June 12th through 17th with events in: Nanaimo, Duncan, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. Take a look at the full event schedule <http://jwindh.wordpress.com/books/pacific-first-nations/launch-tour-dates/> .

I am writing to invite you to the launch of my newest book: First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition. Please pass this email on to any of your friends and contact who might be interested in attending (all events are free and open to the public).I am excited to be a contributor on this most unique and very well produced book (hardcover, 184 pages, and with 100 finely printed colour and archival photographs). It was put together by the Westfalian Museum for Natural History in Muenster, Germany, as part of an exhibit they did on First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest. I travelled to Germany, along with some of my Nuu-chah-nulth friends (Joe, Mary and Tsimka Martin), for the opening of the exhibit.

This book has not, until now, been available in Canada. The first section, by Prof. Alfred Hendricks, is about traditional west coast culture and the effects that European contact had on it. The second section is a series of interviews that I did (along with accompanying portraits) of residential school survivors. Nothing like this has ever been brought to the public in Canada, and that is why I have worked so hard to import and distribute this book in Canada. This is something that all Canadians should have access to - and that is why I did that project in the first place.

I hope that you will be able to attend one of my launch events. This will include a multimedia show (film and photos) about Nuu-chah-nulth traditional culture as well as about some of the issues that affect them today, as well as a talk about the book and readings. Members of the Martin family will be present at many of the events.

The tour kicks off in Vancouver:Wed. June 10th, 8pm, Alma van Dusen Room, Vancouver Public Library and the following night is in Victoria:Thurs. June 11th, Nellie McClung branch of the Greater Victorial Public Library and is then followed June 12th through 17th with events in: Nanaimo, Duncan, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. Take a look at the full event schedule <http://jwindh.wordpress.com/books/pacific-first-nations/launch-tour-dates/> .

I am writing to invite you to the launch of my newest book: First Nations of the Pacific Northwest: Change and Tradition. Please pass this email on to any of your friends and contact who might be interested in attending (all events are free and open to the public).I am excited to be a contributor on this most unique and very well produced book (hardcover, 184 pages, and with 100 finely printed colour and archival photographs). It was put together by the Westfalian Museum for Natural History in Muenster, Germany, as part of an exhibit they did on First Nations cultures of the Pacific Northwest. I travelled to Germany, along with some of my Nuu-chah-nulth friends (Joe, Mary and Tsimka Martin), for the opening of the exhibit.

This book has not, until now, been available in Canada. The first section, by Prof. Alfred Hendricks, is about traditional west coast culture and the effects that European contact had on it. The second section is a series of interviews that I did (along with accompanying portraits) of residential school survivors. Nothing like this has ever been brought to the public in Canada, and that is why I have worked so hard to import and distribute this book in Canada. This is something that all Canadians should have access to - and that is why I did that project in the first place.

I hope that you will be able to attend one of my launch events. This will include a multimedia show (film and photos) about Nuu-chah-nulth traditional culture as well as about some of the issues that affect them today, as well as a talk about the book and readings. Members of the Martin family will be present at many of the events.

The tour kicks off in Vancouver:Wed. June 10th, 8pm, Alma van Dusen Room, Vancouver Public Library and the following night is in Victoria:Thurs. June 11th, Nellie McClung branch of the Greater Victorial Public Library and is then followed June 12th through 17th with events in: Nanaimo, Duncan, Port Alberni, Tofino and Ucluelet. Take a look at the full event schedule <http://jwindh.wordpress.com/books/pacific-first-nations/launch-tour-dates/> .